mouth crystal 2.0

here is the new ink, going for a tenNapel flavor on this one. Next up, coloring this sucker in.

mouth crystal

just a quick color study

**revised more**
-added more details, different color scheme. I think it's heading in the right direction, but does it need a character on the bridge? Possibly....


I think I'll finalize the drawing and put it in art rage, check back to see the final image

z

doodle vision

doodle wave

here is a little doodle we did in our artist meeting this morning.

blog? what blog?

hmm hello blog, I haven't visited you in some time. Don't worry I will be adding a great number of things very soon, right now I have bigger fish to fry.

As some of you may notice, my website www.zoolawnick.com has become quite outdated.... FEAR NOT! I am currently reconstructing it from the ground up, and I will be unveiling the brand new site hopefully before the new year. Since I work 100% in flash at work, I thought it would be fitting that my site reflect what I do at Fablevision. The new site will have animation, illustration and even some games. Stay tuned!!

until then here is a tiny sneak peak at it.

WTD?! Espouse

This week's "What the Doodle?" word over on Creative Juices is espouse.

"Espouse" (v)

to adopt, embrace, take up, accept, welcome, support, back, champion, prefer
to adopt or support a cause, belief, or way of life

I thought with Halloween creeping around the corner, I would jazz this week's wtd?! with a bit of sci fi..

...someone is getting a ride home tonight.

Buyer Beware!

So i just found out that my friend Julia has had her artwork literally ripped right off the web, and sold as "original" artwork on Etsy under the shop name "Vintage Childhood". We all know people lift images off the internet, but it's another thing to see it happening right in front of you. It's so aggravating that someone had the guts to steal low res 72 dpi images, and sell them as originals, claiming that he/she has used only the "best paints" to create it.

So in the end, not only does the ACTUAL artist get ripped off, but the buyer gets a shitty pixelated piece of artwork, no refund, out of luck. Not to mention that you really can't do anything about it, unless you wanna shell out thousands of dollars on legal fees.

ya. awesome.


-z

Here are some related links:


-I would post the link to the vintage childhood shop, but Etsy has since removed the site.


http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/

http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/photoshop/1397/Create-An-Audrey-Kawasaki-Style-Wood-Girl.html

family time

WTD?! Trace

Latest word to crawl our way at FV was..... trace

along with the color study

Check out all the rest of the contributions at Creative Juices -also don't forget to check out our new revamped site over at www.fablevisionstudios.com

bLARgh

YArgh!

WTD?!: stubble

Just a hint of jealousy...

check out other FV contributions here

Terrible Yellow Eyes revised!

before

after

So I was over at Terrible Yellow Eyes, drooling over what everyone had made and I started to glance back at what I had created for Cory. I was (and still am) satisfied with how it came out, but I always felt like there was something missing. I think I always felt like there was a lack of soul in the beast. My intent was to make him jovial, so in doing so, squish up the ol' eyeballs and make him squint. However, considering Max is facing away from the viewer and the second beast is basically a faceless creature in the shadows, this basically leaves us with three characters without eyes.


So I noodled with it a bit, I personally think I got what it needed. Now you can see a spark of life in his eyes, and a bit more sense of curiosity.

-also another note, I think having his eyes open, lead the view up and around the illustration. Where as, when they were closed, you kinda just stopped on his face.

Let me know what you think, maybe I'm wrong!

-kzoo

More LotL goodies

hmm a bit late. WTD:publicity

he will ruin all your hopes and dreams. fear him, human.


seriously tho, I forgot to put this up on here. Sorry guys!

shh. secrets

TOP secret! well, maybe. I'll look into that actually...

for now, check this out!

LotL

It's funny, everyone always makes fun of me for wanting to make things glow in my illustrations. So what better way to do that, than shove an actual lightbulb behind it! ha!

check it out!

Please excuse the cruddy image quality. These are photos from the hallway at work.

original image below-

bunny man!

If you want to try out this little dude, click around! If you want to see him LARGE click here

soul patch

maskmin

Here he is! Watch out girls!

- side note, he will eventually have arms... this isn't done yet. ha

WTD: Razor

It's a bit late, but here is what I did for WTD: Razor. Check out more at the Creative Juices blog

Terrible Yellow Eyes

Hey do you remember Where the Wild Things Are? Cory Godbey certainly does! He had the fantastic idea, to not only pay tribute to this classic himself, but to gather a wild army of illustrators to help him out. "We share a love and admiration for Sendak's work and the pieces we present here are done as a tribute to his life and legacy."

Every friday for the past 3 weeks, illustrations start trickling into his blog Terrible Yellow Eyes. Cory himself has posting 5 or more beautiful pieces already, and it has been a blast to watch the variety of illustrations pop in.

Check out my contribution entitled: "Terrible Treeshaker" -thanks Cory ;)

M&N 2.0

Ok! Got them all colored up and ready to go! Hope you enjoy em dudes and dudettes.

M&N

Hey guys, here are some sketches for a "super top secret" project I'm working on... well, it's not secret, or a project, but they are fun! Check em out, FV'ers lemme know if you recognize them ;)

"Vinyl"

ello ello! So at FV we are collaborating on something called WTD (What the Doodle!?) Every two weeks(ish), we will be running a really fancy word generator, then creating an illustration of that word. This week we happened to get "Vinyl", so enjoy!

To check out the other doodles, crawl on over to the Creative Juices blog

Late night sketches

ol scribbly sketchbook stuff!

"finished"

a splash of epic

ode to hokusai

Creeps McValentine

I spun my latest sketch into a FV valentines card.

<3 precious.

ha.

creeps mgGee

Castle Crashers awesome!

Hey there! I just wanted to post this process video from the folks at The Behemoth, makers of the game Castle Crashers. First and foremost, it is possibly the funniest game on the Xbox 360. All of the artwork was originally created in Flash, then pumped into the system.

Altho the game, by design, is just a button mashing frenzy, it really feels like your are experiencing an interactive illustration, making it feel much more engaging than your average streets of rage type game. (TMNT and simpsons arcade game would also apply there) :)

Please enjoy the following video.

Frost King from The Behemoth on Vimeo.

If you would like more information about The Behemoth or Castle Crashers, check out their site over at

http://www.thebehemoth.com/index.html

If you do have an Xbox360, xbox live account and lots of free time to waste.... ha

download the game. seriously, it's amazing.

Flash Illustrations

Here are a few more random doodads. Sketched, inked and colored all in Flash.


Click on them to see the crisper versions.

-z

Shout out to my friends in Mauritius!

Thanks for viewing my blog. It's nice to know that I have an audience on your island.

-In case anyone would like to know where this fabulous island is, check this out!


Rock on,

Z


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